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“All in” until someone offers more $$ or they are “blessed” to have played for such a great school but the “lord”is guiding them to new experience. I might be “all in” not renewing my season tickets I’ve had since 1973 and “blessed”to not have to not have to go to anymore 8:30 games in November.

I saw some Lobos in Yellowstone this past weekend. They were chowing down on a Buffalo carcass, so I’m down for the Lobos…

Will Snowden who trains and helps place high school talent in colleges said their offers were down 80%. Most of those will go to a juco for a year and then hope to get picked up by a D1. Nobody wants to develop a high school player as a freshman and watch them leave unless they are capable of playing right away. JUCOs will become farm teams and…[Read more]

DT is especially concerning. As of now we have no one that was starting or any of the primary backups from the 2024 team. This was our DT depth chart at the start of this past season:

LT:
No. 58 — Junior Tafuna — 6-3, 308 pounds, Sr.
No. 95 — Aliki Vimahi — 6-4, 305 pounds, Sr.

RT:
No. 57 — Keanu Tanuvasa — 6-4, 301 pounds, So.
No. 99 — Tevita…[Read more]

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They crawl back to the team and say they’re “all-in”?!?!?!

Yeap, let me give some money away without it being a tax deduction said no millionaire ever.

You make some good thought provoking points. But don’t underestimate what a great football program does for the perception of a University. The University of Utah has benefitted massively from being great at football and being in the Pac-12. An interesting read is looking into how Alabama’s recent run of football dominance completely changed the…[Read more]

A lot drop down levels, like go D2 or NAIA. I was talking to a baseball coach at a local D2 school, he said one thing that sucks for new high school graduate is there are so many fewer opportunities to get on a team in college because the transfer portal allows them to get players from D1 who are more ready now. I assume it’s the same for football.

The IRS is already lining up for this. I also expect a huge chunk of money to suddenly dry up when the “donations” are no longer considered a charitable. NIL collectives are already considered for-profit by the IRS. It just takes time for all of that to flow through.

The University has a Technology Licensing Office. When a professor/researcher invents something new they are encourage d to submit an invention disclosure. Patents are filed and in some cases companies are formed. When the technology is licensed the inventor gets a generous cut along with their department. If a professor is really generating…[Read more]

Sports is a loss-leader for the vast majority of universities. That leads me to conclude that if the courts force universities to compensate athletes as employees, then most universities will take the path of least resistance and drop sports in general. Most will drop sports because it won’t be affordable but others, like…[Read more]

The problem with comparing college athletes with salaried employees of any industry, is that no one pays money to watch the salaried employees go about their business. Athletes are more akin to entertainers (singers, actors, comedians, etc..) in that their value is completely based on the number of eyeballs that they bring in. Just look at all…[Read more]

I would agree with all that, especially the IRS part. You have to believe that somewhere soon down the line, the IRS will take an interest in all of these “kids” making hundreds of thousands of dollars. How much do you want to make a bet that quite a few of these guys, a lot of which have probably never had a job except for sports in their…[Read more]

Very true, but I believe there are some good wins in their that can still contribute.

Tanuvasa, is probably the worse, but we have other players that will step up and replace him!

The other two have never played a down of football for Utah, so we really won’t know if it will be impacting or not. We have other players that can contribute, and if Singer comes back, it will be a plus!